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11. Lophosternus buqueti, Guei: Icon. Ecr/ne A7iim., Ins. i^ 209 {18U). 



d . Chestnut-red in colour, the head somewhat darker than 

 the prothorax and elytra. Head closely and ratlier stroncfly 

 punctured above ; last joint of palpi widest at about one-fourMi 

 from the apex ; eyes very large, narrowly and not very deeply 

 emarginate, the upper lobe extending forward to the anteii- 

 niferous tuber. Antennae nearly as long as the body : first joint 

 reaching by about one-fifth of its length beyond the hind margin 

 of the eye, third almost rectangular at the apex, fourth acute at 

 the apex, fifth to tenth produced each into a sharply angulate 

 process at the apex. Pronotum closely punctured at the sides, 

 sparsely elsewhere ; hind angles slightly projecting but scarcely 

 acute. Elytra rather strongly punctured, the interstices rugu- 

 lose and finely but not very closely piinctulate ; each with 

 two obtuse and feebly raised costae. Hind breast covered \\-ith 

 tawny pubescence. Last ventral segment with a feeble sinuate 

 emargiuation at the apex. 



Lenr/th 26-38 ; breadth 9-13 mm. 



Hab. Sylhet and Khasi Hills in Assam ; Salween Valley and 

 North Chin Hills in Burma ; Canara in S. India ; Java. 



12. Lophosternus similis, sp. u. 



c5" . A^ery like the same sex of L. buqueti, Grue'r., with which it 

 agrees in colour, form and sculpture, but differs as follows : — 

 Eyes smaller, more deeply emarginate in front, the upper 

 lobe not continued forward quite to the aatenniferous tuber. 

 Scape of antennae extending by nearly one-third of its length 

 beyond the hind margin of the eye. 



Length c^ 34; breadth 11 mm. 



Hub. Ruby Mines district, Burma. 



Genus PARAPHRUS. 



Paraphrus, Thorns. Essai Class. Ceranib. p. 330 (1861). 

 Cyrtognathus (part.), Lucord. Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 51 (1869). 



Type, P. granulosus, Thorns. 



Range. N. India to Borneo. 



(S . Head and mandibles as in Lophosternus, but the anten- 

 niferous tubers more approximated to each other in front, there 

 separated only by a narrow linear groove. Antennseas long as or 

 longer than the body, finely denticulate underneath, li-juinted, 

 the third joint almost twice as long as the first or fourth, fifth 

 to eleventh produced each into a sharply angular process at 

 the apex on the anterior side. Prothorax strongly transverse, 

 only slightly convex or almost flat above, armed on each side 

 with three spines, the posterior spine much the shortest and the 

 lateral edge in front of the anterior spine strongly oblique. Elytra 

 less than twice as long as broad, rounded at the apex, sometimes 



